gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Matthew Macy]

 ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:19:54 -0700 Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote ---- 
 > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:33:01PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: 
 > >  
 > >  
 > > On 9/20/16 2:25 PM, Bob Willcox wrote: 
 > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote: 
 > > >> 
 > > >> 
 > > >> 
 > > >>  ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote ---- 
 > > >>  > 
 > > >>  > 
 > > >>  > On 9/20/16 12:07 PM, Doug Kirk wrote: 
 > > >>  > > Hi Bob, 
 > > >>  > > 
 > > >>  > > To start, you'll want to build and install the kernel from the "drm-next" 
 > > >>  > > branch at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics . 
 > > >>  > > Instructions in the FreeBSD handbook for building/installing. 
 > > >> 
 > > >> No. drm-next tracks upstream, but is not guaranteed to work at any particular point in time. Intel users should be using drm-next-4.7. 
 > > > 
 > > > Hmm, I fear that leaves me with the same noob questions then. Where do I 
 > > > start? What do I download? What do I build? 
 > > > 
 > > > I would really like to try this on my NUC but I'm having trouble getting 
 > > > started. 
 > > > 
 > >  
 > > hey there Bob - sounds like the wiki may need a bit refactoring to make  
 > > it more intuitive.  I'll try to take a stab at that tonight. 
 > >  
 > > the tl;dr version is: 
 > >  
 > > - checkout this branch: 
 > > git clone https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics.git -b  
 > > drm-next-4.7 
 > >  
 > >  
 > > - compile the world+kernel of this checkout.  the normal process of  
 > > building the freebsd world from source works in this checkout. 
 > >  
 > >  
 > > - once you are running the appropriate world+kernel configure this new  
 > > pkg repository (I put this in a file named  
 > > /usr/local/pkg/repo/FreeBSD-ports.repo for example): 
 > >  
 > > FreeBSD-ports: { 
 > >    url:  
 > > "http://www.bsddesktop.com/images/120amd64-ports-graphics-xserver-mesa-next/" 
 > >    enabled: yes 
 > > } 
 > >  
 > > - install appropriate Xorg Intel Xorg driver and XFCE4 desktop  
 > > environment packages like so: 
 > >  
 > > $ pkg install -r FreeBSD-ports xorg xf86-video-intel xfce 

I've found that pkg has a hard time coping when multiple repositories contain different versions of the same packages. You may need to disable the default repo while you're doing this. I've seen a number of instances of operator error.

-M